Enzymatic synthesis of soluble phosphatides from phospholipids

Abstract From the Canadian patent

A method of preparing a soluble monovalent salt of a phosphatidyl ester which comprises reacting a phospholipid with a primary alcohol in the presence of an enzyme catalyst in a divalent cationic buffered solution and a water immiscible non-ether solvent that does not inactivate the enzyme, to form a divalent cationic salt of the phosphatidyl ester, and suspending the product in the presence of a stoichiometric amount of a monovalent cationic salt whose anion forms an insoluble salt with the divalent cation. The use of Centrifugal Partition Chromatography facilitates the enzyme reaction. The monovalent salt is preferably an ammonium/sodium mixed salt. Phosphatidyl ester salts prepared by …